Every year, the markets provide us with some important lessons about prudent investment strategy. Last year taught us 11 lessons, some of which the markets have covered many times before. In this BAM ALLIANCE client webcast, […]
Larry Swedroe
Larry Swedroe, Director of Research My book, “Investment Mistakes Even Smart Investors Make and How to Avoid Them,”covered 77 common errors I believe investors commit all too often. I know today there’s at least […]
Avoid Water Cooler Investment Advice
An overwhelming amount of evidence exists to clearly demonstrate that, in aggregate, active management is a loser’s game. And this is true regardless of whether markets are efficient or inefficient, or whether they are […]
Swedroe: Take A Quiz On Who Said What
Good Reads BAM ALLIANCE’s National Thought Leaders share a common love of the written word, as they have used their books and blog posts to help educate and enlighten investors about the proponents of […]
Hitting the Books
10 “sure things” for 2014: Not so much Larry Swedroe, The BAM Alliance, Director of Research At the beginning of each year, I compile a list of predictions that financial gurus and industry experts tell us […]
10 “sure things” for 2014: Not so much
By Larry Swedroe One of the more persistent investment myths is that it is a winning strategy to sell stocks in May and then wait to buy back into the market around November. The […]
Did you sell in May?
By Larry Swedroe Most investors are well aware of the SEC’s warning that past performance isn’t an indicator of future performance. That warning often leads to questions like: “If past performance isn’t predictive, why […]
Can Past Performance Predict Future Performance
By Larry Swedroe An overwhelming body of evidence shows that actively managed mutual funds underperform their appropriate risk-adjusted benchmarks. In addition, little to no evidence points to persistence of performance beyond the randomly expected, […]